Jun 2014

All things that can be broken areHouses trees bridges bodies all made things unmadeThis is a bad time to be solid intricate alive

Sea and sky are at each other fighting or loving orbecoming one and we in the way must find a hold as best we can

or we can become wateror we can become wind

Pepper Trail’s poetry has appeared in Comstock Review, Atlanta Review, Spillway, Kyoto Journal, Borderlands, Windfall and other publications, and his environmental essays are published regularly in High Country News. Trail lives in Ashland, Oregon, where he works for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.